Tag: review
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Several Books on Crafting Poetry
Want to improve your craft and chances of getting published in Gyroscope Review? Attention to detail helps a lot. There are plenty of books out there on poetic craft for you to ponder over. Here are some mini reviews about a few of the books I’ve read on creating and ordering your poetry. Are there…
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Book Review – Billy Collins “Ballistics”
Book Review – Billy Collins “Ballistics” Ballistics by Billy Collins Random House 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6491-5 An interesting book of poetry from former poet laureate Billy Collins (2001-2003) is titled “Ballistics”, perhaps as a warning to the reader that a careful analysis is in order. Wikipedia defines ballistics as “the science of mechanics…
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A Gyroscope Review Review: Becoming a Tree: Poems 2007-2015 by James Graham
One of the ongoing discussions in poetry is whether poems are accessible, a word that has become despised. But Billy Collins put it well in his introduction to 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (New York: Random House, 2005) when he wrote about how he chose poems for that anthology: ….a preference for…poems that…